Slow sand filtration of secondary clarifier effluent for wastewater reuse

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 43, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 5896-5901

  Langenbach, K ^a   Kuschk, P ^a   Horn, H ^b   Kastner M ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES; BACTERIA REMOVAL; BED DEPTH; DRINKING WATER PURIFICATION; E. COLI; EFFLUENT CONCENTRATIONS; FECAL INDICATOR BACTERIA; FILTER SURFACE; HYDRAULIC LOADING RATES; INTESTINAL ENTEROCOCCI; KEY PROCESS; PARTICLE REMOVAL; RUNTIMES; SAND GRAIN SIZE; SECONDARY CLARIFIER; SIMPLE TECHNOLOGY; SLOW SAND FILTERS; SLOW SAND FILTRATION; SURFACE AREA; TERTIARY TREATMENT; TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS; WASTEWATER REUSE;

AIR FILTERS; BACTERIOLOGY; BIOCHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND; CLARIFICATION; CLARIFIERS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DEWATERING; EFFLUENTS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; PARTICLE SIZE; POROUS MATERIALS; POTABLE WATER; SAND; TURBIDITY; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WATER FILTRATION; WATER SUPPLY;

WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

COLIFORM BACTERIUM; DISINFECTION; DRINKING WATER; FILTRATION; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; RECYCLING; SAND; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; BIOFILTRATION; COLONY FORMING UNIT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; EFFLUENT; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAIN; PROCESSING; SAND; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER RECYCLING; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT;

BIOREACTORS; DISINFECTION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES; FILTRATION; NITRATES; PARTICLE SIZE; PHOSPHATES; QUATERNARY AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; SEWAGE; SILICON DIOXIDE; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WATER MICROBIOLOGY; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 68049118959     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es900527j     Document Type: Article

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